a gentle social satire from a series of ‘Rural Enjoyment’, depicting a slightly uncouth-looking group, variously seated, kneeling or standing around a picnic in front of a large haystack, on the left to the rear a kettle boils on a blazing brazier, its shooting flames starting to catch the hay and causing a plump lady seated nearby to exclaim ‘Lawk how hot the sun is to my back!’, taking her eye away from the cup and saucer she now completely misses with the tea she is pouring from a pot onto a plump gentleman’s foot,

original hand-coloured engraving, 330 x 240 mm. (13 x 9 1/2 in), unevenly trimmed into the washed yellow border, with the loss of the series title above, but well outside the image, [not in BM],